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ESKO -- When the Duluth Police Department was forced to disband its mounted patrol program 10 years ago, Jim Matson thought he lost his shot at his dream job. Matson had never ridden a horse in his life, but he was determined to step into the saddle one day as one of the city's most visible police officers. "When I first started working for the department, I thought it was just the coolest thing," he said. "I'd go down to Canal Park with my family and we'd see the officers on horses standing above the crowds." A decade later, Matson will get his shot.

A Duluth woman has pleaded guilty to her role in the 2012 killing of her former landlord in the Central Hillside neighborhood. Joella Lee Tucker, 32, entered the plea to an amended charge of aiding and abetting second-degree murder Wednesday in State District Court in Duluth. The plea was the result of an agreement with prosecutors. Judge Mark Munger ordered a presentence investigation of Tucker's background.

A Duluth woman has pleaded guilty to her role the 2012 killing of her former landlord in the Central Hillside neighborhood. Joella Lee Tucker, 32, entered the plea to an amended charge of aiding and abetting second-degree murder Wednesday in State District Court in Duluth. The plea was the result of an agreement with prosecutors. Judge Mark Munger ordered a presentence investigation of Tucker's background.

When an 89-year-old resident of Edgewood Vista was raped by a caregiver in January 2013, most of her fellow residents didn't hear about it until it was reported in the newspaper more than a year later. The administration's handling of the case has prompted at least some of those residents to call for more open communication. "I have a right to know if a crime happened here," resident Carol Johnson said. "I'm paying good money to live here.

The attorney for a Superior woman who claims she was assaulted by a police officer is seeking to have the district attorney turn over the results of a state investigation into the actions of the officer. Rick Gondik, the defense attorney for 29-year-old Natasha Lancour, filed the motion for discovery in Douglas County Circuit Court last week. Gondik said the results of the investigation into Officer George Gothner could be crucial to his defense. "We just don't know what's in there," he told the News Tribune.

A small child died in a house fire Sunday night south of Grand Rapids, the Itasca County Sheriff's Office announced today. Firefighters were called to a home on Wendigo Road in Harris Township around 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

Officer Daryl Diver burst through a door barricaded with furniture, crawled into a smoke-filled room and pulled a man to safety from his burning house. Investigator Kristina Schulte discovered that a 29-year-old woman had made hundreds of jewelry sales to local pawn shops and helped return $57,266 worth of stolen goods to the jewelry store where the woman worked. Officer Chris Lee made an astonishing 3,666 traffic stops in 2013. These Duluth Police Department officers were among the dozens who were honored Wednesday at the department's annual recognition ceremony. Each year, the department

Officer Daryl Diver burst through a door barricaded with furniture, crawled into a smoke-filled room and pulled a man to safety from his burning house. Investigator Kristina Schulte discovered that a 29-year-old woman had made hundreds of jewelry sales to local pawn shops and helped return $57,266 worth of stolen goods to the jewelry store where the woman worked. Officer Chris Lee made an astonishing 3,666 traffic stops in 2013. These Duluth Police Department officers were among the dozens who were honored today at the department's annual recognition ceremony. Each year, the department rec

A prisoner who escaped from a Willow River prison Tuesday evening has been apprehended, the Minnesota Department of Corrections announced this afternoon. Richard James O'Reilly, 50, was taken into custody without incident at a Sturgeon Lake-area residence around noon today by authorities from the Pine County Sheriff's Office, DOC Fugitive Unit and Minnesota State Patrol. O'Reilly walked away from the Challenge Incarceration Program at about 8:30 p.m.

Add Credence Farm to the list of Northland businesses that have suffered damage from heavy snow that continues to pile up. An arena at the horse stable, about eight miles south of Superior, suffered a complete roof collapse Thursday, according to owners Jacquie and Jim Heifner. The collapse happened at nighttime, and no people or animals were injured. "It's quite devastating to us," Jacquie Heifner said. "This is what we do for a living." Winter is the busy season for the arena, she said.